2009/5/19 Giancarlo Pegoraro <genkipegor...@gmail.com> > Hi, > Il giorno mar, 19/05/2009 alle 16.35 +0200, Raffaele Morelli ha scritto: > > > > > > 2009/5/19 Bhasker C V <bhas...@unixindia.com> > > On Tue, 19 May 2009, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Raffaele > > Morelli wrote: > > Hi you all, > > > > I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) > > which are not connected to > > the network so I usually do upgrades by > > downloading weekly generated dvd iso > > images, burning images to a dvd-rw and running > > apt-cdrom add && apt-upgrade. > > > > By 'not connected' do you mean not even connected to internal > > netwok ? > > They may not be connected to the internet but are they > > internally connected in a private network ? > > > > no, they are not connected to a public network nor internally in a > > private one. > Sometime I haven't a dvd drive, I copy the dvd.iso in the external Hard > disk and write the /etc/apt/source.list same this: > > deb file://media/YOUR_USBDISK/DIRECTORY_iso lenny main contrib > deb file://media/YOUR_USBDISK/DIRECTORY_iso1 lenny main contrib > etc... > > > regards > > -r > Ciao Genki ):o)) >
Ok, but is your external hd ntfs formatted in order to store files greater than 4GB? or you do split dvd iso images and then rebuilt them on the hd (that's what I intended to do)? ciao to you too :-) -r
